World Insights: Xinhua top 10 world news events in 2020 - Xinhua xinhuanet.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from xinhuanet.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
December 24, 2020
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France has been in the Indo-Pacific longer than conventional wisdom cares to acknowledge. French territories in the area span 11.7 million square kilometers of the South Indian and Pacific oceans, giving the European power one of the world’s largest Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZs). This not only grants France naval and other economic advantages, these very parcels of land and sea allow France to potentially gain an outsized influence in the Indo-Pacific arena. Indeed, if France chooses to speak, it cannot be ignored.
Among France’s overseas territories are the Mayotte and La Réunion Islands, Scattered Island, the French Southern and Antarctic lands in the southern Indian Ocean, and New Caledonia, Wallis-and-Futuna, French Polynesia and Clipperton in the Pacific Ocean.
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The year 2020 stood out in the developments around digital currency in Japan. Not only did Bitcoin reach a record high but also the number of Japanese investors with active cryptocurrency investments hit a record high.
The mass adoption of digital assets in Japan
Bitcoin soared to record highs against the dollar breaking above $20,000 for the first time due to increasing demand from investors taking the crypto assets as a hedge against inflation and a safe-haven currency. The number of active crypto investors in Japan reached a record high of 16.2% this year, while the number decreased slightly in China (Hong Kong) to 14.1%.